In the Administrative Land Regime, it establishes the urban regime for the territorial planning, use and management of urban and rural land of the Metropolitan District of Quito, and the exclusive, privative and prevailing competence in the use, planning, occupation, habilitation, buildability, control and management of land, constructive use in subsoil and air space, with the exception of the exclusive competences of the national government; through the tools and instruments of planning, planning and land management, in addition to establishing the concepts and procedural and administrative tools for the application of urban planning regulations in the processes of planning, management and control of land within the Metropolitan District of Quito.
The Administrative Land Regime is proposed in order to regulate land use planning, urban development, the exercise of the right to habitat and housing and urban and rural urban development, in accordance with the specific allocations established in the Metropolitan Development and Land Use Plan, the Land Use and Management Plan and other complementary urban plans.
The regime is a tool to promote the implementation of SbN in the different urbanization processes of the country. It promotes the efficient, equitable, rational and balanced use and exploitation of urban and rural land, which favors the fulfillment of the rights to the city, to a safe and healthy habitat, to housing, to nature and to live in a healthy and pollution-free environment in compliance with the social and environmental function of property, prioritizing risks and lowering urban development that will mitigate threats, establishing more areas with environmental protection and seeking the densification of the central plateau and not the rural parishes, promoting an inclusive and integrating territorial development that allows the inhabitants to live well.